Will empowerment help our system of education? I believe it will if we are also empowered as individual teachers. We can be far more effective if given the professional freedom for innovation we deserve to get results. Many of us leave teaching because of this lack of freedom as outlined in Why teachers quit.
Next crop could include middle and high schools
By ANTONIO PLANAS
REVIEW-JOURNAL
April 27, 2007
Principals and teachers of at least four more Clark County School District campuses will get to make more of the decisions regarding their schools in the fall, Superintendent Walt Rulffes said Thursday.
Rulffes is to meet today with regional superintendents and other district administrators to formulate a plan for choosing the school system's next empowerment schools.
Rulffes said that although there hasn't been any scientific evidence of school improvement, anecdotal evidence is strong that the schools will produce higher student achievement.
"We want to continue to expand empowerment schools," Rulffes said. "The early signs are very favorable and we want to at least double the schools."
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